Have female presidents in Latin America improved women’s lives?
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mexico just elected its first female president. Many hope Claudia Scheinbaum will improve the lives of millions of Mexican women. An assessment of female leaders and their impact on women's lives across Latin America.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from BU |
| 0:04.6 | Quest from School of Business. Follow wherever you get your podcasts and stick around |
| 0:09.0 | until the end of this podcast for a preview of a recent episode that looks at how businesses might tackle issues like climate change. |
| 0:17.0 | Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Matlab and Simulink software, |
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| 0:29.4 | This is on point. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Magna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:31.7 | I also want to thank you, because for the first time in 200 years of the republic |
| 0:36.8 | I will become the first female president of Mexico. Earlier this month, June 2nd, Claudia Shanebaum didn't just break the glass ceiling. |
| 0:49.9 | She smashed through it, winning Mexico's presidential election by a landslide. |
| 0:55.6 | Shane Baum has a PhD in energy engineering. |
| 0:58.4 | She's contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is also former mayor of Mexico City. |
| 1:05.0 | She won the presidential election with roughly 60% of the vote, the highest vote |
| 1:10.3 | percentage in Mexico's Democratic history. |
| 1:13.0 | And we are making world. |
| 1:15.0 | We are making world. |
| 1:18.0 | We are Mexico. |
| 1:20.0 | We are Mexico. Mexico now joins several other Latin American countries with female |
| 1:27.8 | leaders past and present including Dilma Rousseff of Brazil |
| 1:31.7 | Christina Fernandez-Dekchner of Argentina, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, |
| 1:37.3 | and Laura Chincia of Costa Rica. |
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